TCU Crashes Granddaddy of 'Em All

"Purple to Pasadena" is a Rose Bowl refrain that traditionally should have everything to do with Northwestern and nothing to do with Texas Christian.

Gary Barnett once made good on a vow to lead Evanston to the Land of Milk and Sunny (except for most of this month), but no one 15 years ago could have imagined a "Gary" Patterson leading Forth Worth forth.

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